Open the Tool

Tap Start Studying on the welcome screen. (It shows each time you open the app and moves on by itself after a moment. Tap anywhere to skip it, or tap Stay on this page to keep reading.) Want it on your Home Screen like an app? The next step shows how.

Add It to Your Home Screen

Installing it gives you a one-tap icon, and it works offline.

iPhone or iPad (use Safari):

• Open this page in Safari. If you came from Facebook or another app, tap its menu (⋯) and choose Open in Safari first.
• Tap the Share button, the square with an arrow pointing up. It's at the bottom of an iPhone screen and at the top of an iPad.
• Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen.
• If you see an Open as Web App switch, leave it on. Then tap Add.
• Open the new icon on your Home Screen.

Android: in Chrome, tap the ⋮ menu, then Install app (or Add to Home screen).

Computer: in Chrome or Edge, click the small install icon at the right end of the address bar, then Install.

Good to know: the icon on an iPhone or iPad keeps its own saved work, separate from the same page in Safari. To keep them matched, use Sync your devices at the top of the Library tab. It combines both copies, so nothing is lost. And before deleting an icon, download a backup first.

Choose a Reading Plan

On the Home screen, tap My Reading Plans. You can just read any chapter, and nothing is saved unless you choose. The Continue reading tile on Home always takes you back to the last chapter you opened, plan or not.

• Pick any book from the dropdown and tap a chapter to read it. While you read, Next → just turns the page. Mark Done & Next saves your progress and puts that book in your plans.
• Prefer to decide ahead of time? Tap Add to My Reading Plans under the book. In a book that is in your plans, every chapter has a mark done button to check it off.
• Books in your plans are listed at the top of My Reading Plans. Tap one to jump back in, or tap its ✕ to remove it. You can follow several books at once, like Genesis and Psalms together.
• Want a ready-made plan? Under Bible Reading Plans (the icons, under your own plans) tap an icon, like The Bible in a Year or Proverbs in 31 Days, and tap Start this schedule. Each day shows the chapters to read: tap one to read it, then tap Mark Day Done. There are no dates to keep up with. Up next is always the first day you have not finished, so falling behind is fine. Chapters of books already in your reading plans are checked off for you. There are also three bigger plans: The Bible in a Year, in Chronological Order (events in the order they happened), Old and New Testament Together in a Year, and The Bible in 90 Days.
• Tap a verse while you read to add a 📝 note to it. Your notes show under the verse, and every note is listed in the Library under My Verse Notes. Once you have a few notes, a filter appears there: find a word, pick a book, chapter or verse, choose a date range, and sort by Bible order, newest or oldest. The newest notes show first, 10 at a time, with a Show more button. My Highlights works the same way: your 10 most recent highlights show first, with a Show more button. Keeping your work safe: everything is saved inside this browser on this device, and a browser can clear it (low storage, a reset, a cleaning tool, or Safari after about a week away). The Library shows when you were last backed up. If you have added work and not backed up for a week, Home shows a Back up now reminder. On a computer with Chrome or Edge you can choose a folder under Back Up Your Data and the app will save a backup there by itself, keeping the newest 10. On an iPhone or iPad, add the app to your Home Screen. Syncing to Google Drive counts as a backup. Other Bible versions: when this app has been set up with an API.Bible key, a Bible version picker appears above the verses when you read a chapter or use Look Up. The KJV is built in and works offline. Other versions load over the internet and show their copyright under the text. Your notes, highlights and verse tools still work on them, but Copy, Share picture, sermon and prayer text, Listen and Search keep using the KJV.
• Tap a verse, then 🖼 Share picture to turn it into a picture to send or post. Pick a look and a shape, then Share or Save picture.
• The Verse of the day at the top of Home changes each day. Tap Read the chapter or Share as picture under it.
• In Look up a verse you can do the same things as when you read: tap a verse to highlight it, add a note, share it as a picture, build a sermon on it or add it to a prayer strategy. On Home, the ✕ on a plan takes it off Home if you are not ready for it.
• Tap 🔎 Search everything on Home to search the Bible, your notes, highlights, studies, sermons, prayer strategies, Memorize verses, devotionals and the Hebrew and Greek words, all from one box. Put a phrase in quotes, or type a reference like John 3:16 to go straight there.
• A long note folds into one line, 📝 Note on this verse … ▾ Open. Tap it to open the note and ▴ Hide to fold it again. The note is never changed.
• When you start a sermon or a prayer strategy on a verse, a line under that verse (🎤 Sermon on John 3:16 … Open ▸ or 🙏 Prayer strategy …) opens it again, with everything you wrote. Tapping Build a Sermon on a verse you already have one for asks if you want to open it or start a new one.
• In Search everything, a sermon or prayer strategy opens over your results, so closing it puts you right back. A verse, study or devotional leaves a ← Back to search button at the top that returns you to the same results.
• Tap 📄 Handout above the verses to make a handout of the chapter: the text with your highlights and notes, your worksheet, Hebrew and Greek words, and related passages. Save it as a Word file, print it, or save it as a PDF.
• Switch on 🔍 Hebrew & Greek words (the word study) above the verses, then tap an underlined word to see the Hebrew or Greek word behind it: how it sounds, what it means, how the King James translates it, and every verse that uses it. The word list is the public-domain Strong's dictionary.
• Tap any verse, then 🔗 Related passages to see other places in the Bible that connect with it (the best-agreed links come first). Read the verse right there, tap What connects to this? to keep following the trail, or Read the chapter to go there. The links come from OpenBible.info.

Read the Chapter

Tapping a chapter opens the full text. The King James Version is built in, so it works without internet.

• Listen to This Chapter reads it aloud. While it reads, a bar at the bottom of the reading window has Pause, Resume and Stop, so you never have to scroll back to the top. Resume picks up from the same spot where you paused.
• Bible version: the pull-down above the chapter switches between the KJV, the Berean Standard Bible (BSB) and the World English Bible (WEB). All three are built into the app and work without internet. Your choice is remembered, and Listen reads the version you picked.
• Bible version: the pull-down above the chapter lets you read other versions, such as the NLT or the NKJV. They load over the internet, so you need a connection. The KJV is always built in and works without internet.
• The chapter numbers of the book run down a column beside the text. Tap a number to jump to that chapter. Next stays at the bottom.
• On a phone, tapping a verse puts its buttons (highlight colors, note, Share picture, More) in a bar at the bottom, so they never cover the Scripture. Tap ✕ Done to put the bar away.
• Tap a verse to highlight it in yellow, green, blue, pink or purple (tap a second verse for a range). Need more? In My Highlights tap ＋ Add a color to add up to five more (orange, red, teal, brown, gray, lime, navy) and give each a name. Find every highlight again under My Highlights in the Library tab. Add a keyword like faith or prayer to a highlighted verse, then filter My Highlights by that keyword to see every verse you tagged with it. Name your colors under My Highlights → Name my colors (yellow = Faith, say). The name is its keyword, so one tap on a color highlights the verse and tags it, and the color key in My Highlights always shows what each color means.
• Tap NKJV, NIV, NLT, ESV, NASB 1995, NET, AMPC, MSG, or TPT to open the same chapter in that translation on Bible.com, with every verse numbered, or Commentary for a verse-by-verse study page. These open in a new tab — just switch back when you're done. They sit under the version pull-down instead of in it because their publishers keep the copyright, so they cannot be built into the app. They are free to read on Bible.com.
• Verse Map: tap a verse, then tap 🗺 Verse Map (it is called 🔍 Verse Detective in the kids' edition). A page opens with the verse at the top and boxes to fill in: the verse in your own words, who is speaking and listening, key words, cross references (tap ✨ Suggest verses for ideas), what it says about God and about you, and what you will do about it. It saves as you type. Find all your maps again with the Verse Maps tile on Home, and tap 📌 Memorize this verse to practice it.
• Start a Verse Map from any verse: on the Verse Maps tile (or Verse Detectives in the kids' edition), type a verse such as John 3:16 in the box at the top and tap Start. You do not have to open the chapter first.
• Full screen: the pill at the top of the reading window makes it fill the whole screen. Tap Smaller to shrink it again so the rest of the app is easy to reach. The app remembers your choice.
• Mark Done & Next checks off the chapter and moves to the next one. Previous goes back.

Follow a Devotional Plan

Open the Devotionals tab to follow a guided plan.

• Tap a plan, then pick a day from the numbers across the top.
• Tap the day's title to read the short devotional. Some plans also include a truth to remember, reflection questions and a declaration to say out loud.
• Tap a Bible reference to read the verse right underneath it. The link under the verse opens the full chapter, the worksheet and other translations.
• Check items off as you go. A day turns green when everything is done.

Fill Out the Worksheet

Tap Fill Out Worksheet Here inside the reading pop-up, or use the Study tab.

• Work through key verses, who the chapter is about, its message, important points, context, cross-references, questions, application, and a prayer.
• Everything autosaves as you type. The Save button is there for extra peace of mind.
• Add Keywords & Tags at the bottom so you can find it later.
• Studying just one verse? Type the chapter as 3:16 (or 3:16-17 for a few verses). The worksheet switches to one-verse questions and shows the verse at the top. You can also open it from a Devotional plan (tap the reference, then the link under the verse).
• Come back to a chapter you've finished? Choose View Full Worksheet, or Add New Insights to add a dated note without losing what you wrote before.

Look Up a Scripture (and start from it)

On Home, tap Look up a verse, type a book and chapter and tap Look Up. You can read, listen, switch on the Hebrew & Greek word study, make a handout, and tap a verse to highlight it or add a note. The buttons 🎤 Build a sermon, 🙏 Prayer strategy, 📌 Memorize and 📝 Fill out a worksheet start from the verses you tap (or the whole chapter if you tap none), so you do not need a reading plan. A worksheet started from a verse puts it in the Chapter box, like 8:28-30.

Look Up Another Scripture

Thought of a verse while writing? On the Study tab, tap Look Up a Different Scripture, type a book and chapter, and read it in a separate window. It never changes the worksheet you're working on.

Find It Again in the Library

Every saved worksheet lives in the Library tab.

Using more than one device? At the top of the Library, Sync your devices keeps a computer, iPad and iPhone matched through one file in your Google Drive. It has step-by-step setup for each kind of device, and every sync combines your work, so nothing is overwritten. If you restore a backup file, you can combine it with what's on the device instead of replacing it.

• Search by any word, a person's name, or a tag. Tap a tag to find every worksheet with that tag.
• Sort by newest, oldest, or book order.
• Download Backup saves everything to a file. Restore From Backup brings it back on any device.

Memorize Scripture

Keep the verses you're learning by heart in one place, and practice them a little each day.

• While you read, tap a verse, tap More, and choose 📌 Memorize. You can also type a reference in the Memorize tab, or tap 📌 Memorize this verse under a devotional verse.
• Open a verse to practice: Read it, show only the First letters, hide some words (Blanks), or Type it from memory and see exactly which words you missed. You can also Listen to it.
• Tap ✓ Got it or ↻ Need more practice. Verses you know come back less often (after 1, 2, 4, 7, 14, 30 and then 60 days), and Home reminds you what is due.
• The King James text is filled in. Tap Edit text to use the translation you are memorizing.

Build a Sermon

Reading a verse you want to preach from? Turn it into a sermon without losing your place.

• Open a chapter and tap a verse (tap a second verse to pick a range). Then tap More and choose Build a Sermon, or Save as seed to come back to it later. The sermon opens in a window over your chapter, so your verse stays open underneath. When you are done, tap Back to my verse. While a sermon is open, tap Add to put more verses into it, or Open sermon to bring the window back.
• The Sermons tab holds a full sermon worksheet: foundation scripture, big idea, context, key words, outline, supporting scriptures, illustrations, application, altar call and prayer. It saves as you type.
• If you already wrote study notes on that passage, it offers to bring them in.
• 🔍 Look up verses to pull in (at the top of the sermon) opens Look Up on top of your sermon. Look up any chapter, tap a verse or two, and tap Add to my sermon. It goes into Supporting Scriptures. Close Look Up (✕ or Esc) to be back in your sermon.
• Already have a sermon written? In the Sermons tab, tap Import and choose your Word file (or paste the text). It finds the title and scripture, splits out the outline when your headings are clear, and keeps your whole sermon as a full manuscript.
• Take a sermon out of the app: open it and tap Download to save it as a Word file (or a text file). In the Sermons list, Download all gives you every sermon as Word files in one zip.
• Pulpit View shows your sermon in large print, with a timer and a Screen on button. Copy as Text and Print are there too.

Build a Prayer Strategy

Plan how you will pray, with scripture behind every point.

• 🔍 Look up verses to pull in at the top of a prayer strategy works the same way: look up a chapter, tap a verse, and tap Add to my prayer strategy to add it to Key Scriptures.
• Prayer Requests & Notes: at the top of the Prayer tab, tap Requests & Notes to keep prayer requests, scripture you are meditating on, and notes for a particular person or situation. Add a scripture by its reference, or tap a verse while reading, tap More, then Add to requests & notes. Mark one Answered when God moves, and tap Make this a prayer strategy when you are ready to build on it.
• Open the Prayer tab (or the Prayer Strategies tile on Home) and tap New. Give it a title and a focus (who or what you are praying for), add key scriptures by typing a reference like Philippians 4:6-7, and write your prayer points and declarations. It saves as you type.
• Reading a verse that fits? Tap it, tap More, and choose Prayer strategy. It opens in a window over your chapter, so your verse stays open. Tap Back to my verse when you are done. While a prayer strategy is open, tap Add to pull more verses into it.
• Already have one written? Tap Upload and choose a Word file (.docx) or a text file, or paste it. Its scripture references and numbered prayer points are picked out for you, and your full text is always kept.
• Use Download for a Word or text file, Copy as Text to paste it elsewhere, or Print. Mark it Praying while you pray it and Answered when God moves, and write down what happened under Answered Prayers & Testimonies.

Keep a Journal

A page a day for what God is saying to you and how it fits your life.

• Open the Journal tab (or the Journal tile on Home) and tap Write today's page. Just start writing. It saves as you type, so there is no Save button.
• Add a title if you like. Type a scripture such as Psalm 46:10 and tap Add to put the verse at the top of your page.
• Reading a chapter? Tap a verse, tap More, and choose Add to my journal. It lands on today's page. Then open the Journal tab to write about it.
• Each page has its own date. Tap the date to write about a different day. Tap New page for a second page on the same day.
• Your past pages are listed by month. Use the search box to find a word or a verse. Copy as text and Print are at the bottom of each page.
• Your journal stays on this device and is included in your backups and Google Drive sync.

Commentaries, Collections and Comparing Versions

• 📖 Commentaries sits above every chapter you open. Tap it to open classic commentaries (Bible Hub, Enduring Word) on other websites. If you have tapped a verse, it goes to that verse; if not, it goes to the whole chapter. Nothing is stored in the app.
• 📚 Add to collection is also above every chapter. Tap a verse first, then tap it, and choose a topic such as Fear or Healing, or create a new one. Your collections live in the Library.
• ⇄ Compare (beside the version picker, when you are using other versions) shows two Bible versions side by side, verse by verse.
• On the Home screen, the Hebrew & Greek words tile (if your copy has it) lets you look up a word without opening a chapter. Type an English word or a Strong's number like G26, then tap a result.
• Tapped a verse and the panel is in your way? Tap ✕ Done in the panel (or tap the same verse again) to go back to reading.

Change the Colors

Pick a color theme that feels like you.

• Tap 🎨 Colors at the top (on a phone, tap the gear first), or open the Library tab and find Color theme.
• Tap a theme such as Soft Rose, Lavender or Sage. The whole tool changes right away, in light and dark mode.
• Tap Original to go back. Your choice is saved on this device only.

Make It Comfortable to Read

• A− / A / A+ at the top changes the text size.
• The Auto / Light / Dark button switches the color mode.